Heater for incubators



H. M. SHEER.

HEATER FOR INCUBATORS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, 1920.

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HEATER FOR INCUBATORS.

APPLICAHON FILED JULY 10. 1920.

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I HENRY M. SHEER, F QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

Application filed July 10,

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burner lowered and swung to one side.

Be it known that L'HENRY M. SHEER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heaters for Incu bators, of which the following is a specification.

y invention relates to an improvement in heaters, for incubators.

The fundamental featuresof the present invention are to enable the operator to handle the burner without being obliged to manipulate the entire lamp, which has been necessary hitherto, since that method presented difliculties in making connections with theregulator and automatic oil control, and every time the lamp was given attention the adjustment of the regulator was necessarily disturbed. With my present construction, the relative position of the oil font and the regulator, both of which are fixed, remains the same, regardless of any attention given the burner or change in the position of the same.

This invention therefore includes an oil font and regulator stationarily placed, a burner, a valve controlled by the regulator to automatically determine the supply of oil to the burner, and an oil feed pipe for conducting the oil from the valve to theburner made in two parts, so that the burner can be moved quite independently of the oil font, regulator, valve and the lamp, thus making it entirely unnecessary to disturb the oil font and regulator, while at the same time making the adjustment of the burner a simple and independent feature.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a viewin perspective showing the burner in one position; and

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the A, represents an incubator of any approved type, and the numeral 1 is the oil font, preferably stationed permanently on top of the incubator, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A pipe leading from the font leads to the valve 2, and this valve is controlled by a thermo static regulator 3 which is supported by a tube l of suitable length and extending the required distance, preferably from the top of the incubator in to a point in proximity to the eggs, where it is held by a clamping plate 5 of two parts c a p HEATER FOR'INCUBATORS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

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1920. Serial No. 395,422.

' around the upper end of the tube 4 and held by screws or bolts permanently on the incubator. The usual rod 6 extends through this tube to the oil control lever 7,".which extends to the valve 2 and controls the passage of oil therethrough.

A base 8 is fastened on the incubator in position to hold the valve 2 in place. From this base, the pipe which fits the burner extends. This pipe is made in two parts, the upper section 9 ispreferably bent L-shaped, "and extends from the base around'the upper corner of the incubator with its free end extending downwardly, as shown in Fig. 2.

The lower section 10 is adj ustably supported by the bracket 11, where it is held by two set-screws 12, which admit of its being raised and lowered and turned axially, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower end of this section 10 is bent horizontally and extends to the burner 14 of the lamp 15.

The upper end of the pipe section 10 preferably has a cupor funnel 16 thereon, so that the oil coming down from the upper section 9 of the pipe is caught therein and flows on down through the pipe section 10 of the burner. Thus the two sections 9 and 10 of the oil feed pipe telescope, the lower end of the upper section into the upper end of the lower section 11.

lVith this arrangement, it is perfectly convenient by simply loosening the set-screws 12 to adjust the burner either to raise or lower or swing the latter aside, as shown in Fig. 2, when it is necessary to give attention thereto. Thus it will be seen that the oil font 1, the regulator 8, and the lamp 15 are never disturbed the slightest degree, the burner only being adjustable, this being rendered possible-by making the feed pipe in two sections 9 and 10, with the latter (which supplies the burner 14: directly) vertically V and axially adjustable.

Obviously the oil font or container might be fastened against the end or side of the incubator instead of on top, and the tube 4: of the regulator might enter the incubator from the end or side, although the form illustrated has been found satisfactory, and is probably preferable. It is also understood that the length of the tube 4 and the rod 6 would be subject to variation according to the size or type of incubator. In fact many other changes might be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, the illustrated form being intended V to represent a type more than an exact form I claim:

of the invention.

1. A heater for incubators including an oil feed pipe made in at least two parts or sections, one of which feeds into the other, an oil, font, valve and regulator in fixed relation to one pipe section, the other section of oil feed pipe adjustable lengthwise and axially, and a burner connected thereto. 7 2. The combination with a suitable support, ofan oil ,font, aregulator, a valve secured in an oil supply pipe, the latter made in two sections, one of which sections together with the oil font, valve and reguinsections, one of whiohis fixed to the in- V "justable section.

cuba-tor and the other adjustably connected therewith in position to receive oil from the V fixed pipe section, and a burner connected with theadjustable pipe section.

4:. The combination with an incubator, an oilcontainer, valve, and regulator supported thereon, of a base, an oil supply pipe. made in two sections, one of which is s'e- ,7

cured to the base, and the other section tele- 7' scopically connected with the fixed section and adjustably supported both endwise and axially, and a burner connected with the ad 5 The conibinat1on with an incubator, of an 011 font, regulator and valve secured 'thereto,-a burner, an oil feed pipe made in sections, one of which is adjustably connected to the burner and detachably connected with the incubator, and the other pipe section fixed to the'inc'ubator and discharging into the adjustable pipe section.

I In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

' HENRY sHEER. 

